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Exeter Advocate, 1909-04-08, Page 6ty.....................................1........ ___ Time Heals Most Wounds 1' still tlyi;lg at the masthead. P- ' they were t4) be in tinge. But tl" house seemed strangely hushed, as though it were already touched by the hand of death. They made their way to the be 1 - side, and Rebekah looked at the figure of the Earl Icing there. But his eyes were glazed, and his carne in pants. Tho dec•t',r motioned her away, and she dents lack for the end was near. What weVe' the words falling broken:. from his lips? a 0110011011111 figure beloved. 1 ant C'}TAPTE It X X IV. "Was --father dear, for you are coming to you." And then lie was sorry ?" she said tenderly, and her silent, Vet only for a moment. The Earl was greatly fatigued eves filled with compassion at this "I es. I ant—guilty. lreason— • ftcr his lung interview, and Lord confession of human weakness. and 1 have—suffered. But I aril Ilarecastle was yer•Y concerned at forgiven. Cyril forgives --and you ''1 don't know, dear. I am truly his weakness. —(.'pristine. You will understand.'' "I am afraid I was not, too kind Furry for what has happened. I re - ret it deeply, but the thingthat They stood around and watched to that ) onus woman," he remark- K P • his feeble struggle for life. Their ed to his Fon, "but tell her not to terrifies rue is that if the Caine pusi- eyes were wet with tears. Their mind It was myself I was punish- tion were to occur again, 1 do not fyelxl herself by Cyril's side, and rug. 11y lad, 1 hese about reached know that I :should not again act she placed her hand in his. It creates two benefits for wage the end of Inv tether. I shan't be in the same way. These last few Rebekah looked at them with earners. One is an absolute gift sorry, Cyril." days 1 have been busy with my shining eyes and then at the Earl. to which they will contribute no- ,:. thoughts. You, dear, have taught ''Christine --my beloved --Chris• thing, while the other is a form of 1 ry to reg father. You will g mi- aow) be t!trong agrain,'' Lord Hare- tele a lesson. And I and jealous, fur tine." insurances to which they will sub - castle :=aid with a cheerfulne.,s that 1 have begrudged the tirne that And with 1►i'; dead wife's name on scribe. he was little feeling. you have spent by the bedside of his lips the seventh Earl of 1S'ul The first, benefit is an annual Rebekah h::•l spoken to hire fur that dying old roan. I feared d that verholmo passed away. grant of $24 which is to be made a moment and had delivered t?tllei a you were beginning to love him They left Cyril to his grief. and to all wage earners when they reach ulessage. It was curious, but. it more than your father." the two girls went from thea chant the ago of 6.'1. Tho funds from was a relief that he had not seen "I do levo the Earl, father, and ber of death. which this is to be paid aro to be her before her departure. The in- I pity him. But I ani so glad you e'Good_hs•e, dear. I am got lg, raised by a tax levied on the em- tcrtiew with the Earl must have have spoken to mo. 1 have been back. I shall be over grateful thus, ployers and a complementary con - shocked her, and it would be bet- very miserable, and I cannot look sem brought me to hint. It will i►e i trihution by the State. ter that titles should have an op- forward to a life of love. Fate has a comfort to know that he wanted' WHAT EMPLOYERS PAY. purtnnity of applying its salve. not granted bibs that happiness. to see mo. Good-bye." In the morning he ,•resited her But after all love is not all that life -But you must cot go," Rebekah letter, aed he was wounded to the : contains. There is the pleasure of lcadod. cjui.•k a:, he read her words of self- knowing that one is doing one's p But Ethel shook her head anti abasement: and his first impulse duty-. Self-sacrifice is nut all bit- event downstairs. A car was soe,9 v. as to rash t., her. But his fa- ter pain. ready and she started on the return the•r's c•uiidition kept hires prisoner, Her es -ea filled with tears and she journey. for there was no question, but that threw her arms round her fathers Sho was clutched by a horrible his life washanging by a thread. neck. fear that Cyril did not need her. He telegraphed fur Sir Francis "1, too, want coinfort. Let us go Had she forfeited his love! Lockyer, who told then, that there back to the old days. Noy, let us (To be continued.) was no hells of the Earl's recov- look forward to better days, for we ery. are beginning to understand one ------4' "He may linger on fer a week or another. «'e know our weaknesses SUITORS RISKED LIVES. two, lout, - " and can tight against them. You— He stopped expressively, and and 1 will go away by our two Prussian Damsel Punished for her Lord Harcc•astle gathered the signi- selves. We will travel and see Heartlessness. ftcance of his meaning. 11is elan- strange lands. Be sure that hap ner to his father became even more pitiess will come to US." The lord of Kienast castle in te..ckr, and the old Earl smiled his "You put mo to shame, dear. Prussia, so the legend runs, had grateful thanks. He, too, know And so we will start afresh, and a lovely daughter, g'unigun, had who that the end was near, but he did you aro once more my dear little was a hard-hearted damsel. Sho not Ilinth. fur he no longer had a girl," he said quickly, but his voice vowed to Accept no man as her sui- clesire, to live. His affection for was expressive of great content. tor who could not ride, round the 11e:Lekah ber►led to increase, and Rebekah, too, could see th t the toll of the outer wall of her father's he was 1,I:11appy when she was ab- (-lads were beginning to disperse. castle. }�ie11ast castle is perched scat. That hely joy which conics to 0110 un a rock isolated from the hods Joel looked on at the approach- who gives up trcasure>e to enrich of tate mountains, and its walls rise ing end of the man he had tortur- another possessed her, and her eyes from the brink of nearly walls • so cruelly. beamed forth a screility that told cular precipices. C.'uniguuda had 'l'he Earl now and then asked fur of the battle bravely fought and many. lovers, but after her start - his presence, and he always went won. ling decision the greater number to see him, but his manner was con- But she was not given much time discreetly withdrew and the strained and he was ill at case. !for self -communion for the Earl moreetly daring spirits who attempted fewd It was at one of these interviews, required her resistant presence. He file feat were clashed to pieces in wheal Rebekah wits present, that was rapidly growing weaker, and the abyss. One day a knight carne the furl soddenly blurted out— a.' she sat with Ilarec sable watch- to Kienast whose presence and "Aren't you going to forgiteyour ins; his life slowly passing from herr, manners interested l,:uniKunda so fat}I r, dear �"' she foot that she was usurping ran- touch that she repented of her vow, Father and daughter looked nt ether's place., and. when he insisted on carrying ens, needier. and Rebekah stretch- Mrs. Goldberg quickly noticed out the daring ride, she begged pint (41 forth her hand. The Earl the improved relati)n between l,or tc deyir,t. lie refused, and. G� her chuckled softly - brother and his daughter. great joy, performed the exploit ".1,:1 s(, 1 and to be a ptacernak- "I am so glad, my dear,. that safely, but as her lover (dismounted cr, at the er.d. Treasure this child, you and your father aro frends and she rushed forward to throw Joel. She is one in a thous:and. again. 1 never thought• that he herself into his arms he gave her If l had her I shouldn't he anxious would give, in, she remarked ono a round box on the ears, and leap- tu marry her off." evening. ing to his horse, left her forever. The► left him together, and Joel "Ile has told be a lot. about hien- The somewhat cavalier knight was beckoned to her to follow hint to self, and 1 understand hint better t he Landgravn Albert of Thurin- the library. His manner was dif- now," Rebekah reviled. "1 aril si.a, who, in order to punish Cun- f,d0nt. and he ens evidently labor- glad to see that he and the Earl igurlda for her cruelty, had pr(•ci ing under great etnetion. are butter friends. It is a great "sly practised his steed in this ' • 1 must have it eut with you, relief to ore. Whet is it, James?" dangerous exercise. Ret,ck:111,' he began nervously. rhe asked as a se�rt:ant entered. — s "i am going to try to explain "The Earl is taken very 10141 and nit -elf to sou. U ,11'1 think I aryl he wants to see. Miss Rebekah." A woman probably feels blue making excuses. That's impossible. Sho hastened upstairs; and she when she is green with envy. But I 'taut you to tiidetstrand ore, quickly saw that. Lord \1'ulverhol11)0 - _ w ith all Ins f:►ult . These last. few had but little longer to live. - ttt•e•ks you hate• geese ie a weerllan "You will stay with isle to the and you possess a we,rnan's un- last, Cyril," he asked, and his derstandinej. You ieheuld have voices was becoming weaker. I "I can truthfully say known tl1(• in the days of my t•trug- wanted to see you once more, Re- that I believe that, but for glee when i was fighting my way in 1►akah, and to thank you for your the use of your Emulsion Africa. E ery men's hand was kindness to an old than. You have against 100 It is true that. I was made n,y last days less bitter, and 1 would long since. have not a pauper, but 1 was dealing I ala almost happy. Dying gives been in my grave. I was with cu.'u with millions. fly lord, one curious ideas. for I should like past work - could not walk to see that girl Ethel. 1)o you think up -hill without coughing she would cornet I did treat her rat her roughly, and I dont want very hard." her to have too bad an e,pinion of the mon who will be grandfather THIS, and much tonic was to her children," M written by Mr. G. W. flower- "! will le) and fetch lien" tun. ('lark's Gap, W. Va. We Re- bekah said eagerly. "1 am sure would like to send you a full she will regret it if she does not copy of his letter, or you see you." plight write him direct. Itis "Yes. Go, child Btit oho net bo case was really marveleais, too long Give me a kiss first." but is only one of the many It !seemed a long and wearisome woofs that Hurley to Ilebekele but she 1 grasped at, the chance that might bring together Cyril sad the Ivo - A Tale of Love and Disappointment L � OLD AGE PAY IN FRANCE .111,1110 IN 23 TEARS FRANCE WILL HAVE 1,500,000 PENSIONERS. Scheme Proposed In Which Em- ployer, Employee and State Will Help. A committee of the French Sen- ate under the presidency of M. C'uvinut has formulated a scheme fur old age and workmen's pen- sions with which it is understood the Government is in almost com- plete agreement. The scheme is t cry complex and will give rise to long debates in the Senate and later in the Chamber, but its main litres are clear. how 1 fought. It was the jey of my life, and I grew to love it. (}raduxlly it bedside Dart of toy nature. and if your neither had been differ 'int i believe I should hate fought her It is not gnar- l -Oink( that 1 rne311. Net vulgar nagging. iiut a right down. naked to the waist. fight. it is the joy of overcoming ditliculties that ani- n,ate•d inc. it 0b5(55(41 Inc He paused for breath and rhe It ul:e•d at hint with wondering eyes. • 1 eas vteelthy, but i was net content. 1 !eenged for more and 1 t,btaineti.d it. by fighting. 1 hinged . for mere and I eehtaincd it, by fight- mon he hived. To her joy she found ing it;it this pastime became te:e,, thnt. Ethel w:is at home. ee.' and lust its interest. My ( "I want you to coma at once,' heed' were idle and tho devil she said hurriedly. "We fear the found something to occupy them.Earl is dying MA he wants to see :1t first, dear. it was the thought you. lett w ill come 1•' of you that moved ore to work for "But why does he, want to se!(, t ie marriage. For a long time mo? I thought be hated me." no other idea was in my tnittd. "No. You are mist.iken. 1", There erre many difficulties in the be quick or we shell be too late,• eat. and I overcame them al!. Nut Rebekah sai(i imleaiteret!V, for she Is fair means, I knots•, but that has was consumed with an anxiety to leen my way. 1 always told my- self Chet it was for you. Brut a time 1)0 i►ack in time. Ne, time was Io1st on the road. for; ran( when 1 c sold trot ►cake that they raced along as fast as the cat ex' Ise . fe r t tv•Is st rib ing tt ith you. could travel. Ethel remembered; 1 p 0 ., ed w ith the Inst fe r her last journey And the painful; w a� e,'is c• t , my (eft rl way. which 1s t)o' int, -,at ter- interview that followed it, and tint i ril►1e of %ices, rind i swore that my wondered what fate new had ir. I will should prevail, he the evil what store for her. The passage of tin:'; it may. 1 seemed to have lost all had given her mild the chance (.f it consideration fe►r you. In my mad viewing her cecduct mere gent): I passion I could have coldly watch- but it had not brought her comfort. 1 ed ynu go to the altar, even if I She still blamed herself sever ) ad kne w -n that it would entail up- and without mercy, but- the though(' en yield a life of mi.ery." if e,tice mere te.ing Cyril was 11 ,t Ile stopped and 1e eked at her eo terrif' ing n• it had been. *nsie►usly. .1t. last Leig'it..n Manor came i.1 „This hind of roan is t 1st. fa--ierht. and Reh►e!ih Bete a cry e f there, he wound up ner .ns:•1; ; .y c. a :.:.t saw that the slag vas Scott's Emulsion is the most strengthening and re vitalizing piep,lration in the world. Even in that mo:.t stubb to of all di:,cases (consumption) it does won- ders, and in less serious troubles, such as anemia, brollc'hitis, asthma, catarrh, or loss of flesh from any epics the effect is much quicker. Ise e,.•, !• i., nes brtttt• 't scot r• 1:4t is lW' sure 1t , s(UiT'$ •41 1?: it. Ar,t, 1:ttt'e:r1IST3 ( rt er •-w.) T,`n Mr. 1! ►oreer(nn's (otter 4,1 e►..•., 1 t•rs(nrr .ire.t ono 1 es • l'.•st Card ae4 seaiI t the,+p•r. score' & B01.4.1.1-1 126 Wel:inston 3s.. W. Tor,nte ser Employers are to pay for each of their employees over 18 a auto of $1.80 a year and 90 cents for each under 18. Only one-tenth of these sums will be payable the first year the law goes into effect, two_ "A great crowd presented them - tenths tho second year, three- selves before the house. They had tenths the third year, and so on, agreed not to invalidate the evi- so that it will only be after ten denco of the miracle by letti'►g me years that the employer will be pay- ; know what Doctor Good lard said. ing the full amount, and after that i The note was the fetish that must year his payments will remain fixed. Ii effect the result. 1 f "They stood with their hands• It is calculated that for the first 1 year this scher..e is at work there' over their mouths fur fear the sec - will be 120,000 grants, needing $2.- I rot would fly out. Despite their' 880,000. The payments by employ extraordinary efforts to keep ni- ers are estimated to reach about! fence for a nneute, they were only fi2,000,000, so that the State will be moderately once( ssful. called upon to pay $0,000. Their leader handed me the A well known statistician, Ed- ouard I'uster, reckons that by the twenty-fifth year France will have 1,500,000 of these pensioners whose - Ease▪ l to du se. grants will bepaid, $'20,000,000 b in a great shunt. Then each of ) y then, yelling as loud as possible, It's all right to drink of the good the employers and $11,10U,00U by began to reheat the entire incident c•ld clays, and tell ns how much the State. from idle beginning. They must better they did things when you The second part of the Senatorial their were a boy. But the world moves commission's scheme is an old ago. have dead Rt><•estollingfttone te ni�;htry ►judge onward and those meth►ds will not pc3(11' established bys payments nby b the way they shouted and by the answer now, and we do net pro- pose thoie interestedfact to adopt theist. grunts from the State. The pay -Then the farmer raised for his ments made are to be obligatory anybody else to listen to hiss. The own living, now the market, is the with the option c,f paying more and;incident increased our prestige. I 1 gi "In R certain trading house g world and his coinpetitors•the civil - so serotina; a higher pension. Th©1 similar incident occurred. A native ized nations. amount. of pension will depend on!he secret is intensive effort, the payment made and the ago at! presented ave hilnote knife. theherhtrader, schcthcr in dairying, breeding or which the pensioner claims it. i e neral farthing, and it's they same .�$ The obligatory payment is 00; the young enterprising natives up- 8; life off the farm. The .lack o cents a year between 15 and 18 and Pro riatcd paper wherever they all strode» has given way to the could find it, and presented it to $1.20 1I year from 18 until the pen -1 master of ono. si011 is claimed, which can be done the trader, supp+►sing that he would But weo have only made a fair be - in the age of 53. produce, a knife and give it to, them; but when they witnessed hi3iKinning in this country yet. lhs WHAT 'I'IlE STATE WILL I)U. dumb ignorance, they concluded' day w ill 4.„1110 when the product The State undertakes to increase that there were limitations to iho still be t .sire what it is to day. the pension t bus assured by a white man's magic." third, that is to say that a work- man wtm makes the obligatury pay- ments until he is (Y will have rz right to a pension of $N, to which „ the State will add fce1, snaking $24f "Yes," sighed the euburhan man a year. ho that a workingman will who had just moved in, "at the be able to enjoy at the age of 65 last place I had the prettiest little $21 a year from the employer plus garden that, ever bloomed until my State funds and $21 from the work- neighbor's chickens scratched the ingnlan plus State funds. roots up." , This forts of insurance, it, is cal- "And did you kick ? asked his Gelated, will apply to about 1 ',- I,ew accluaultance. 000,000 persons. The obligatory "You bet! I gut a big tomcat•, the purpose of preparing a seed i►'d payments will bring in about $11,- to Iii, in wait fur his chickens. or of killing weeds. Wu till to 000,000 a year, but no estimate has ' \‘ hat then 1' - slake plant food tomo available; Leen given by the commission as "Why the next I knew he hard to preserve n,oi.sture; to prevent tel how much this second part of bought a fer irises bulldog to watch injury from ietsec(5 and diseases. 11 the scheme is likely to cost the for my Turn. ; we can accomplish the,e things bet - State. I "II'in ! And did that end the ter by other means. these other The insured will effect their pay- trouble?" Means 5)1 )11(1 he adopted. The Nest ments by placing stamps on an all- ''Oh. ne. 1 borrowed a wolf freenl for c►rle` m:111 is not always the` hest nual card which each will receive,1 an animal tra:ucr to kill the bull- for another. therebyith a aveicding the necessity of ideg." to the knife, cell 1 What fa�orrilt,• lyteew4 Aare tueere Pgood yteµthetn having the employer deduct the payment from the employee's! was the next chapter in the hitter and feed them, er rather overfeed, wages. The cornmt«ion partici-: fetid 1" titltil they gest there mut of condi- larly wished to avoid giving this! "There was noise. I heard that tion. The pigs will get out eef con- iesurance scheme the appearance he 1%115 about to pureba�e. a tiger to ditien at the sante time and lots of of lessening wages, hut it has felt. kill ray wet!, and as I ee,uldn't nf- treent►!e will ensue. A breeder who itself obliged to insert an article' ford the, price of an elephant to tt ill 1e eek after his sows and their • pigs closely, feed then, reggularly, moderately and intelligently, will get them started in good shape and keep there growing continually, and w ill be able to show something to his neighbors that he will be proud of later on. WHITE MAN'S MAGIC. Iff•••++si a+•s♦♦+•et►♦••+ Thy They Have Great Power Over • i tho Natives of .Africa. • •1 Tho bush people of Africa are the AIJOIJI Farni 6 P fetish. In "The Jungle Folk of 4 ` Africa" Mr. R. H. Milligan tells • ♦t how this belief sometimes becomes 4+4+,!' ♦4444•4•4 4 • et►' •i4 1 a great protection to the whites DON'T RAISE TOt) MUC'it who come among them, because they believe the whites must have STOCK. more powerful fetishes than their Nothing goes to the heart, of a owt month after our arrival at lover of animals more sharply than Efulen, Doctor Goad, having sicca- u ' lot of half (starved stuck. sion togoto the coast,on the keep an animal more than the farm way will support iu plenty. A well fu,J (bought something of a native to and eared for teats will do more whom ho gave a note addre►;sed to work than two teams of weakened, ole, in which he requested me to straw -feel horses. Two properly give the bearer a red cap ---a thing fed cows will give you far bet.teeref . of yarn worth about five cents, but results than twice as many depend - much appreciated by the native,; ing almost entirely upon corn stalks although it is more becoming to a for their sustenance, and the edter- monkey than to a man. tial squealing of half fed hogs niton "Doctor Good explained to hits drive you almost iusaue. Even that he would ooly need to go to chickens, excellent scavengers Efulen and hand the note to me though they be, cannot be expecte without saying a word, where -upon, ed tel produce eggs during the win - without asking any questions, 1 ter, unless fed properly and regu- would fetch out a red cap and give lardy. it to hits. "It was almost too great a strain lion t start© the land either. If upon his credulity, but he agreed. you cannot properly care for the His entire town accompanied hire st hole► farm don't try tel do so. Bet- te, see this unheard-of miracle. It ter 1,3' far let a field or two lie was a walk of half a day, and they fallow than to half fertilize and passed through several towns on half cultivate the whole place. One the way, in which they told what acre of corn planted as Guru should was suing to hal►pej:i rtt. Millen. be and taken care of as it must be "Tho population of each town, will give you more corn, ttiurca jerking the dinner off the fire, stalks and greater satisfaction than up the baby and leaving two or three acres we sco so fro- snatchingthe dead to bury their dead, joined sassily• in the procession. I Don't starve your family; don't 1 starve yourself. You must give your mind as well as your body, nourishment. YOU must have so- cial iuterc.,urso with your neigh- bors, plenty of proper reading mat- ter, and keep up with the ever pro- gressing movement of the world around you. We cru not advocate incessant "gadding," and the ''uur,ight and tlitseen" taking up of every new proposition and method that any - ore chooses to propose, but thank goodness there is no longer a place note. I looked at it, and without in our farming tfc for the loan r word went into the house and who never takes lois eyes from the returned with the call. I;Srounci to bee what others aro do- immediately"Thev vented their astonishment ing, or alluws any member of his 1 ske GOING TOO F.R. 1'.101 NOTES. The clays of ground -bung farming aro over. There is no hil,ernatinj an,e int; the young omen elle hate attended the agricultural college and hate learned to seize, opper- tunity- by the foretop and to have something to sell every (lay in the year. Tillage means stirring they lend for the lauds Saks, not rudely for to the effect that if at the end of. kill his tiger, 1 thought it best to the year the worker is behind in ! u►uvc." his monthly payment the enlp1e-,yer must, en demand from the State MARY «'.1S 131.:1�f1:1.1:SS. authorities, retain fre,tn his wage's tho amount due. "How did this rase get broken, ---v1, TIIE J.1P:INESF: FUOTF:11.i.. One of the things which strikes one in Japan is the footfall. fie dif- ferent trete the sound mad.) by shoo leather, filling the ears i:, ray a crowded station in Teki11 with its European looking trains. pintforrna, ticket offices, bookstalls another familiar objects. ie d musical clicking noise of the wooden san- dal,' sir clogs, which are worn wit; of doors by all e1 ses of .1apanese and which are raised al,ove the ground at varying heights, neerd- ing to the state of the roads, its oono of the most characteristic hits of l'(letail of the country. and ant pie ture afterward recalled to the mind has this clinkety clink, elirekety click, as a running ac.•ornpanlnient. 111: 111 ' f1E. R' "Those sectioned boekc•ases aro fine things. You can start in a small way and add to them as you can affe,rd it." "Good idea. Why doesn't Pe n e- hrel y invent a sectional hat, for !adios Mary ,lack oneotted of weal lime In "It fell off the pedestal, ma'am. about three fet,rthe; Rf. a pad e! "Hew didyou upset tho pedes - water (eight (inerts). stirit . ia ff It) tall (eighty andandlet it tettle. ll I never touched it.. The chair ern. the eater 811(1 about a pint of t:.0 bumped into it, ma "And didn't you push the chair r' settlings Lit.) a fent• galled st„►ter ' I did not, 1111/1131 It w -as the± jar, and yet in th0 ee'!!;(r, or ut`ler table done that. ,1i1 1 did w8s to cool, dark 1:1ar•e. I'ut iho clean, push the 140(3' up agin' the tal,la, fresh eggs daily into this liuiewilte`•, I to see wpat's a-goiui faking care to drop them in esn"- an' how am fully, so .tie; not to erae•k them; to happen that far off cuter. and they will keep Qeee;cl a year er more. Ne matter which end is (1•,wn. nncl have n, care about turning thorn. ('ounCel (to the jury) The prin- cipal fault of the prisoner has been, his unfeertunate characteristic of putting faith in thieves and scoun- drels of the basest description. I have done. The unhappy man in the deck pets implicit faith in you, . gentlemen of the jury'” 'flie adjutant had lectured a squad of recruits eel rerrlpany drill, le;►ttalie'n drill, and every other form .1 movement that he could think of, and At Ine=t threw in A little instruction of his own on Materials ejected from ve,lcaners personal behaviour in face eel the are chiefly vapor, or water. lab a, enemy. "On the field of battle a werecinders, ruck, fragments. and va ri- b j ave oldierhe willetalwre ays ke bef toms nils Vases. understand. Private Jone•, where wc►:tld you he found, then, on the Brasil i=u;,;►! e s half the world s t►attl^e1?ld '" Private Junes "In coffee. !the a'1tmunit.ion wagon, sit." s r